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Radio Production Technical

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1. What are the four dynamic processes?
Compression - Limiting - Expansion - Gatherings (CLEG)
Recording - Editing - Mixing - Mastering (REMM)
Amplification - Routing - and Mixing (ARM)
Middle frequency sound speaker

2. What is a Woofer?
Low frequency sound speaker
S sounds - sounds that hiss
Sending the sound where you want it to go
The two-way speaker has the Tweeter on top and the Woofer on the bottom

3. What does FCC stand for
Recording - Editing - Mixing - Mastering (REMM)
Reduces background noise by turning off a channel if the desired level is not met
Federal Communications Commission
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.

4. What is Compression?
Lowering sounds that break through sound peak -
Sending the sound where you want it to go
High frequency sound speaker
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact

5. What is Amplitude?
Middle frequency sound speaker
From the peak to the trough
Lowering sounds that break through sound peak -
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling

6. What are Plosives?
Above 20kHz
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air
The two-way speaker has the Tweeter on top and the Woofer on the bottom
From the peak to the trough

7. What are the Three Basic Functions of a Console?
Amplification - Routing - and Mixing (ARM)
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling
Recording - Editing - Mixing - Mastering (REMM)
To keep a condenser microphone from picking up the vibrations of the ground by suspending it.

8. What is a Cycle
From the peak to the trough
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up
From the peak to the trough

9. What is sound measured in?
Decibels (dB).
Sending the sound where you want it to go
Federal Communications Commission
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)

10. What is the Midrange?
Middle frequency sound speaker
Compression - Limiting - Expansion - Gatherings (CLEG)
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact
Lowering sounds that break through sound peak -

11. What is a Shock Mount for?
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Cutting out mistakes and adding effects. Can copy and paste like in Word
A permanent magnet moves through a coil to replicate the sounds. The electromagnetic field is the same as the sound wave
To keep a condenser microphone from picking up the vibrations of the ground by suspending it.

12. What does FCC stand for
Business
Muting sounds above peak
Federal Communications Commission
Lowering sounds that break through sound peak -

13. What are the levels of tones
Placing the track in Mono or Stereo
Recording that overwrites the previous recording
Sub-Bass - Low-Bass - Upper Bass - Lower Midrange - Midrange - Lower Treble - Upper Treble
Decibels (dB).

14. What is Mastering?
Above 20kHz
From the peak to the trough
Finishing the sound. Critically listening to the project for last critiques
Above 20kHz

15. What is Sibilance?
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact
Sub-Bass - Low-Bass - Upper Bass - Lower Midrange - Midrange - Lower Treble - Upper Treble
S sounds - sounds that hiss
Business

16. What is the FCC and what does it do for radio stations.
Between 20Hz and 20kHz
Chooses who gets a broadcasting license - what frequency they get - and regulates what is aired
Lowering sounds that break through sound peak -
Sending the sound where you want it to go

17. What does a Sound Wave look like?
The spectrum of frequencies available to radio
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The spectrum of frequencies available to radio
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling

18. What are Plosives?
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling
Below 20Hz
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact

19. What is Recording?
The two-way speaker has the Tweeter on top and the Woofer on the bottom
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact

20. What are the levels of tones
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
Sub-Bass - Low-Bass - Upper Bass - Lower Midrange - Midrange - Lower Treble - Upper Treble
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling

21. What is a transducer?
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy
Reduces background noise by turning off a channel if the desired level is not met
Cycles per second

22. A radio station is first and foremost a ________
Below 20Hz
In order to get a new perspective on the project
Compression - Limiting - Expansion - Gatherings (CLEG)
Business

23. What is sound measured in?
The spectrum of frequencies available to radio
A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.
The spectrum of frequencies available to radio
Decibels (dB).

24. C of O's Station ID
A permanent magnet moves through a coil to replicate the sounds. The electromagnetic field is the same as the sound wave
From the peak to the trough
Compression - Limiting - Expansion - Gatherings (CLEG)
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)

25. What is Mastering?
Raising sounds that dip below the sound trough
The two-way speaker has the Tweeter on top and the Woofer on the bottom
Finishing the sound. Critically listening to the project for last critiques
Recording - Editing - Mixing - Mastering (REMM)

26. What is the FCC and what does it do for radio stations.
Recording - Editing - Mixing - Mastering (REMM)
Chooses who gets a broadcasting license - what frequency they get - and regulates what is aired
Lowering sounds that break through sound peak -
Amplitude - Cycle - Frequency - Volume - Molecular displacement

27. What is Mixing?
Federal Communications Commission
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
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28. What is a Cycle
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up
Sub-Bass - Low-Bass - Upper Bass - Lower Midrange - Midrange - Lower Treble - Upper Treble
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy
Making the sounds more usable.

29. What is our hearing range?
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling
Sending the sound where you want it to go
Between 20Hz and 20kHz
A permanent magnet moves through a coil to replicate the sounds. The electromagnetic field is the same as the sound wave

30. What is Routing?
Sending the sound where you want it to go
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact
Placing the track in Mono or Stereo

31. C of O's Station ID
Between 20Hz and 20kHz
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)
Recording - Editing - Mixing - Mastering (REMM)
Lowering sounds that break through sound peak -

32. What is Expansion?
Raising sounds that dip below the sound trough
Compression - Limiting - Expansion - Gatherings (CLEG)
Placing the track in Mono or Stereo
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy

33. What is Destructive Recording?
Chooses who gets a broadcasting license - what frequency they get - and regulates what is aired
Recording that overwrites the previous recording
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.
A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.

34. How does a Condenser Mic work?
From the peak to the trough
Middle frequency sound speaker
A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.
Recording that overwrites the previous recording

35. What is Amplification?
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)
Raising sounds that dip below the sound trough
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy
Making the sounds more usable.

36. What is a transducer?
S sounds - sounds that hiss
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy
P sounds - sounds that pressure the air
A permanent magnet moves through a coil to replicate the sounds. The electromagnetic field is the same as the sound wave

37. How does a Dynamic Mic work?
Cycles per second
Low frequency sound speaker
Saving the sound for use in the future. Goal to find sweet spot in Mic.
A permanent magnet moves through a coil to replicate the sounds. The electromagnetic field is the same as the sound wave

38. What is Sonic Panorama?
Amplitude - Cycle - Frequency - Volume - Molecular displacement
The spectrum of frequencies available to radio
Placing the track in Mono or Stereo
Amplification - Routing - and Mixing (ARM)

39. What is Mixing?
Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
The spectrum of frequencies available to radio
Federal Communications Commission
KCOZ - Point Lookout - Missouri (91.7FM)

40. What are the four dynamic processes?
Amplitude - Cycle - Frequency - Volume - Molecular displacement
Compression - Limiting - Expansion - Gatherings (CLEG)
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up
Middle frequency sound speaker

41. What is frequency?
Sound Pressure Level - the pressure that moves the air and causes vibrations
Business
The highness or lowness of the sound. Does not regulate volume
Compression - Limiting - Expansion - Gatherings (CLEG)

42. Electromagnetic Spectrum
Compression - Limiting - Expansion - Gatherings (CLEG)
In order to get a new perspective on the project
In order to get a new perspective on the project
The spectrum of frequencies available to radio

43. What is our hearing range?
Compression - Limiting - Expansion - Gatherings (CLEG)
Placing the track in Mono or Stereo
A diaphragm moves back and forth from pressure. The air changes is known as the condenser. The small diaphragm is covered by a thin layer of gold to make a conductor.
Between 20Hz and 20kHz

44. What is SPL
Sound Pressure Level - the pressure that moves the air and causes vibrations
S sounds - sounds that hiss
Something that converts one form of energy into another. In the case of Microphones - converts Acoustic into Electrical energy
Above 20kHz

45. A radio station is first and foremost a ________
Business
High frequency sound speaker
In order to get a new perspective on the project
Between 20Hz and 20kHz

46. What is ultrasonic?
Above 20kHz
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact
Below 20Hz
From the beginning of the center point going up to the beginning of the next center point going up

47. What is the Midrange?
Middle frequency sound speaker
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Balancing the sounds for clarity. Making it one sound.
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling

48. What is Hertz (Hz)?
Cycles per second
A permanent magnet moves through a coil to replicate the sounds. The electromagnetic field is the same as the sound wave
Recording that saves a separate file and leaves the previous intact
Muting sounds above peak

49. What is Destructive Recording?
Recording that overwrites the previous recording
A permanent magnet moves through a coil to replicate the sounds. The electromagnetic field is the same as the sound wave
Sending the sound where you want it to go
Amplitude - Cycle - Frequency - Volume - Molecular displacement

50. What is Limiting?
Changing the sound how you want it with effects and volume leveling
High frequency sound speaker
Muting sounds above peak
Recording that overwrites the previous recording